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In Memoriam

Harold Kieler

December 06, 2025
Pastor served churches including Winfield Grace, Wichita Trinity, El Dorado First, Augusta and Wichita First, as well as serving on the Kansas West ...

James Pollom

December 03, 2025
Pastor served Dwight, White City, Bucklin and Deerfield.

Dillon Hess

December 02, 2025
Pastor served numerous churches in former Nebraska Conference.

Dana Scott

November 30, 2025
HIs spouse, Mary Scott, is a retired Great Plains Conference pastor serving Stromsburg-Polk.

Mary Al Titus

October 31, 2025
Pastor served churches in Jetmore-Hanston, Sublette, Great Bend, and associate at Hutchinson Trinity.

F. Cole Fowler

October 22, 2025
Pastor served Kearney Faith, Waverly, Omaha St. Paul and Aurora, as well as being the South Central DS in the Nebraska Conference.

Robert Danson Simison

October 22
Pastor, 100, served Wichita College Hill and Dawson, as well as several other Kansas West congregations.

Marian Snook

October 01
Her husband, John, served Ellsworth UMC.

O. Wayne Turner

September 30
Pastor served Fairway Old Mission, Tecumseh, Overland Park Indian Heights and KCK Bristol Hill.

Caroline Njeru

September 29
Her husband, Julius Mutembei, pastors Minneapolis UMC and United Church of Bennington.

Raymond Vernon

September 24
Longtime president/CEO of Wesley Towers.

Robert Winters

September 12
Pastor served former Kansas West churches in Morganville-Linn, Glasco, Clyde and Harper, among others.

James Stillman

September 11
Senior pastor at Lincoln First, Kearney First was also chaplain at Nebraska Wesleyan and UN-Kearney.

Roger Gillming

September 07
Retired pastor served several central Nebraska churches.

Ebb Munden

September 02
A U.S. Navy veteran and former lawyer, he served as senior pastor of Lincoln First UMC for 25 years.

Ronald Williams

September 02
Pastor served several churches in former Flint Hills District.

Theodore Inman

August 14
Pastor served Topeka Highland Park, Emporia Grace, Coffeyville First, Overland Park St. Mark's and Pittsburg First.

Carl Evans

August 12
Former Kansas West Conference pastor was professor of religious studies for 35 years at University of South Carolina.

Thomas Perkins

August 11
Retired pastor also served in executive positions in health care systems in Nebraska.

Robert Atwell

August 03
Pastor served Worden, Lansing, Leavenworth churches.

Neva Merriman

July 29
Husband Bill served several churches in Kansas East and West conferences.

Wayne Castle

July 25
Pastor served churches in Hiawatha, Lawrence, and campus ministry at KSU.

Julie Ryherd

July 21
Her husband, Kip, served 21 years as pastor of Minneola UMC.

Barbara Decker

July 10
Her husband, Rev. John Decker, served Ark City, Abilene, Garden City as well as Wichita First as an associate and Hutchinson District superintendent.

De Etta Edgar

July 08
Her husband, Rev. George Edgar, served as chaplain at Bryan Hospital and Nebraska State Hospital, and in various state agencies.

William Doran

July 03
Pastor served 40-plus years in Hardy, Hebron, Kearney, Lincoln and Grand Island.

Jeanne Bakely

June 23
Her husband, Donald, was executive director of Crosslines Cooperative Council; she was the mother of Rev. Claudia Bakely.

Merna Greer

June 19
Widow of a Nebraska Conference pastor, she was also a retired diaconal minister.

Harry Graves

June 04
Pastor served several churches in Kansas West, including nine years at Concordia Trinity.

Glen Emert

May 25
Pastor served Laurel, Pleasanton, Broken Bow

Lowell Brown

May 13
Pastor served 6 years in Alexander, Kan., before beginning his ministry with Christian Rural Overseas Program.

Gregory McCrimmon

May 10
Great Plains elder served 22 years as a U.S. Navy Chaplain

Linda Battello

May 08
Served churches in McCook, Kimball, Stratton, Bayard, Gering and Elsie

Alton Pope

May 05
Pastor served several churches in Kansas City area.

Gordon Tasker

April 26
Pastor served Wichita Pleasant Valley, Kingman.

Jeffery Hale

April 24
Pastor served churches including Arcadia-Mira Valley and Callaway-Morning Star.

Richard Zimmerman

February 15
Pastor served several churches in former Kansas West Conference.

Penny Birdsong

February 14
Lay Servant Minister served churches in central Kansas.

Verl Strong

February 04
Retired elder served Pittsburg Grace, Frontenac, Opolis.

Marion Knoell

January 21
Pastor served several Nebraska churches and was chaplain at Nebraska Methodist Hospital for 22 years.

Nieta Devor

January 16
Her husband, Rev. Jerel Devor, served Udall, Hutchinson and Bucklin.

Dorothy Schmidt

January 10
Husband served Sprague-Martell and Lincoln St. Luke

Chuck Kallaus

January 03
Retired UMC pastor founded Wesley House in Pittsburg.

Duane Harms

January 02
Retired pastor had served several churches in former Kansas West Conference.

Elin Colglazier

December 27
Elder served churches in western Kansas and was on Kansas West Conference rural issues task force.

Calvin Hartman

December 25
Pastor served churches in Hutchinson, Clay Center and Garden City.

Nicholas Woods

December 15
Woods served as a U.S. Army chaplain from 1973-1982, as well as churches in Courtland, Minneapolis, Elkhart and Stockton.

Patrick Freeman

December 15
He served in several capacities in the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference, as well as Kansas East Churches in Lebo, Baldwin City, KCK and Galena.

Nick Marsh

November 23
A second-career pastor, he was serving Horton-Powhattan-Netawaka-Whiting at the time of his death.

Jayne Ann Duncan

November 17
She served as deacon, education minister at Emporia First UMC.
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